In vivo imaging of the human brain at 1.5 T with 0.6-mm isotropic resolution

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 329-340

  Oros Peusquens, Ana Maria ^a   Stoecker, Tony ^a   Amunts, Katrin ^a,b,c   Zilles, Karl ^a,c,d   Shah, Nadim Jon ^a,b,c  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Brain Imaging Center West   (Germany)

^d HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

0.6 mm isotropic resolution; 1.5 T; Averaging; Brain imaging; Complex averaging; Coregistration; High resolution MRI; In vivo anatomical imaging; Volume coverage

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; MAGNETISM; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77649341252     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2009.11.006     Document Type: Article

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